As soon as we got into a bit of open I raced up to him.
'Now, look here, Warrigal,' I said, 'you know why you're doing this, and so do I.Our horses are not up to galloping fifty or sixty miles on end just off a spell and with no work for months.

If you don't pull up and go our pace I'll knock you off your horse.' 'Oh! you're riled!' he said, looking as impudent as he dared, but slackening all the same.

'Pulled up before if I knowed your horses were getting baked.

Thought they were up to anything, same as you and Jim.' 'So they are.

You'll find that one of these days.